First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones. Skin grows over the gills they use to breathe underwater. Their tails shrink ...

Its underside is whitish with scattered blotches that ... LIFE CYCLE: Eggs usually become tadpoles within two weeks of hatching, and tadpoles transform into immature toads in about four to eight weeks ...

From above, the oriental fire-bellied toad seems fairly nondescript—a ... to reveal the bright red-and-black coloration of their underside. This behavior, known as the unken reflex, warns ...

Some tadpoles have not grown into frogs this year due to the poor weather Tadpoles have decided not to turn into frogs because of this year's bad weather. The young amphibians usually begin their ...

A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Beneath a floating canopy of lily pads in Cedar Lake, Canada, a swarm of western toad ...

A carnivorous amphibian, the Puerto Rican crested toad feeds on a variety of arachnids and insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, and spiders. Tadpoles aren’t very picky either, and will ...

The special lighting allowed a specific species of tropical algae to grow in the museum’s aquarium, a key condition for successfully rearing of the tadpoles Curator of Herpetology at the museum, ...

Its underside is whitish with scattered blotches that ... LIFE CYCLE: Eggs usually become tadpoles within two weeks of hatching, and tadpoles transform into immature toads in about four to eight weeks ...